My choice

(I used auto setting without flash.)This is the original shot with no corrections made. I took this photo in October of 2010. I took the photo at my school in front of a row of lockers.

This is the same photo, but with corrections made. I used the spot healing brush to remove strands of hair. Then I shifted the around the brightness to 16 and contrast to 100. I like the corrected shot better because the colors of the makeup and hair color is more vivid. 

The Dry Road

This photo was taken in october of 2010 on my dirt road. This is the original shot with no corrections made.

This is the same picture as above, but with a few adjustments made. I changed the vibrance to -100 and Then I saturated it to +93. I like this corrected shot better because it is not only black and white.... but the sky still has a little blue tint.

Architecture Picture

This is my original shot with no corrections made. This  picture was taken in September 2010 out side of laporte highschool. I used auto setting without the flash on.

This is the same photo with a few corrections made. The first thing I did was rotate the image. Then I cropped the photo to remove pieces of the building that was not needed. After that I made adjustments to the levels and changed the input to -36 and the output to 3. after that step the last thing that I did was moved the curve level so the input level was at 18 and the output I kept at 0.
I like this shot most because it darkens the tint and adds a little green shade that wasn't there before.
I decided to use this shot as my architecture photo because it shows a building that many people worked hard to build and it is a place where many feet have entered and learned great lessons.

Scale shot!

This picture was taken in October of 2010. I selected portrait scene setting with the flash on as well. This is my original photo with no corrections made.

This is the same picture as the one above, but with corrections made. I used the healing brush tool to heal the teenage girls out of place hair on the right side, I also used to healing brush tool to remove the little milk splotches under the boy's bottom lip. Next i cropped the picture to cut out some of what was not needed in this shot. Then I used the quick selection tool to make the coat in the backround dissapear... After I had the area that i wanted to change selected I went to the color balance and put the red at -2, the green at +38, and the blue at 0.
I used this shot as my scale image because it shows the growing people do over the years. ( from a young child to a teenager)
I like this shot best because it doesn't have all of the clutter in the backround like the original.